The Federal Bureau of Investigation shares information about the recent shutdown of a Lineage II private server. NCsoft continues to be diligent in protecting our intellectual property and making the game enjoyable for our players.Source: NC Soft, Austin, TexasMehr…

As the company continues to grow its live products and prepares its next set of major online game releases for later in 2006 and 2007, the company sees a slowdown in its launch pattern and the need to streamline its business.“ Says one NCsoft spokesman.

To streamline the business NCsoft has laid off 70 employees from the Austin-based organization this week. The company called this move „an immediate restructuring…that included the difficult task of reducing members of its workforce.“

Late yesterday, word circulated online that massively multiplayer online game publisher NCsoft had undergone a significant round of layoffs. This morning, the publisher acknowledged that pink slips were, in fact, handed out at the Austin-based organization this week.

The company said approximately 70 of its 300 employees had been terminated.

In a statement, the company called the move, which affects NCsoft?s Austin operation only, „an immediate restructuring …that included the difficult task of reducing members of its workforce.“

A spokesperson told GameSpot that none of the publisher?s development teams have been affected by the move, noting that the Tabula Rasa team is still in hiring mode.

The documentary investigates gaming workshops in China that hire people to play online games like World of Warcraft and lineage. The gaming workers play at least 12 hours a day to produce in-game currency, equipments and whole characters, which are sold to American players.

Messages logging:
You can ask l2drop to log all messages in a text readable format
to activate message logging add the -l switch on the command line.
Thus you’ll have to run: l2drop -l
If you do this, It will generate a file named L2WH_Messages.txt that contains all messages logged .

You also can specify a logging pattern with the -p switch
if you do so, only messages that contain the pattern will be logged
thus : l2drop -l -p wts will only log messages that contain the string WTS (pattern is not case sensitive) .

You can also filter on channel basis, with the -c switch.
The format is a list of channel separated by a comma.
The channels are defined as follow:

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